19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 Afterward God said, Let the waters bring forth in abundance every [a]creeping thing that hath [b]life: and let the fowl fly upon the earth in the [c]open firmament of the heaven.

21 Then God created the great whales, and everything living and moving, which the [d]waters brought forth in abundance according to their kind, and every feathered fowl according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:20 As fish and worms which slide, swim, or creep.
  2. Genesis 1:20 Hebrew, the soul of life.
  3. Genesis 1:20 Hebrew, face of the firmament.
  4. Genesis 1:21 The fish and fowls had both one beginning, wherein we see that nature giveth place to God’s will, forasmuch as the one sort is made to fly about in the air, and the other to swim beneath in the water.

19 And there was evening, and there was morning(A)—the fourth day.

20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures,(B) and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”(C) 21 So God created(D) the great creatures of the sea(E) and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it,(F) according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.(G) And God saw that it was good.(H)

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